turn and shift, The prize be sometimes to the fool, The race not always to the swift. Who misses or who gains a prize, Go, lose or conquer if you can, But if you fall or if you rise, Be each, pray God, a gentleman.

But it probably won't be for long. The un-meek will take it away from them just as soon as they get it located.

Mocy's or Gimbels

A man who always bragged to his friends that he would live and die a bachelor, suddenly got married. One of his friends, learning about it, called him up and asked what happened.

"I married a girl from Gimbel's," said the New Yorker. "I used to buy at her counter, she was always attractive, one day I took her to lunch, and then, you know how those things develop. I married her."

Said the friend.: "Well, now that you're married, what do you think about it?"

There rvas a pause, and then the newlywed replied: "sometimes I wonder if I couldn't have done better at Macy's?"

His Quotcl

The commanding officer announced to his squad: "We're outnumbered four to one, so do your best."

Immediately a Southerner started blazing away. Soon he stopped, and leaned his rifle against a tree. The officer asked him:

"What's the matter?"

He answered: "Well, I got mY four."

A Dirfy Remork

"Did you make these biscuits with hands?" asked Mr. NewlYwed.

"Yes, why?" asked the young wife.

"I was just wondering, if you did, who of the oven?"

Nqturql Gluestion

your own little lifted them out

"You can't marry my daughter without my permission," declared the father, heatedly, "She's a minor."

"What?" demanded the suitor, "you mean I've got to ask John L. Lewis?"

Trees

"What is that noise?" asked little James, Out walking in the park, "That noise you hear" his father said, "Is but the dogwoods bark."

"And tell me why the dogwoods bark?"

It is just possible that some day the Scriptural injunction will be fulfilled, and-"the meek shall inherit the earth."

He said, with muclr ado, "I think" his father said, "they hear

The pussy willows mew."